killpgrp(8) User Manuals killpgrp(8)NAMEkillpgrp - kill all processes in the same process group
SYNOPSISkillpgrpDESCRIPTION
Kills all processes in its process group when a process group leader is
killed.
This program needs to be called by the client uid defined in amanda,
and is used to kill VDUMP, VXDUMP, and XFSDUMP in a safe manner. It is
called by sendsize, the amanda client software.
killpgrp send a SIGTERM to all processes in its process group. If a
process in the group does not exit after three seconds and does not
answer, killpgp will send a SIGKILL.
OPTIONSkillpgrp takes no arguments.
SECURITYkillpgrp needs to be setuid root unless amanda is compiled with
DONT_SUID_ROOT.
SEE ALSOamanda(8)AUTHOR
Manpage written by Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rrbranco@br.ibm.com>
User Manuals May 16, 2006 killpgrp(8)